Fugitive Serb police official is arrested
A former Serbian police general wanted for more than three years was arrested in Montenegro on charges of murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province of Kosovo, the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said.
Vlastimir Djordjevic, once a close aide to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, is accused of planning and instigating the killing of hundreds of ethnic Albanians who had “no active part in hostilities,” according to the indictment. He also is charged in connection with the forced deportation of 800,000 Kosovo Albanians.
The former Serbian assistant interior minister was taken to the tribunal’s detention block, according to a statement from the court, based in The Hague. No date was immediately set for Djordjevic to be arraigned.
It was the second arrest in a little more than two weeks of a fugitive from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
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